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Charlie Wilson's War Page #7
"and will fully cooperate with
the ongoing investigation. "
Okay. Run it by Stu.
Yes, sir.
Gus!
- Yeah.
Well, I'll tell you what I told
Harold Holt. I can get the money.
Now, the 10 million is a
joke? Fine. What do you need?
- To do what?
- To shoot down the helicopters.
To shoot down the helicopters.
If we can help them shoot
down the goddamn helicopters,
everything's gonna start going our way.
You know, there's a story about
a Zen master and a little boy.
All right, and... Yeah.
It's Stu.
You should be on this.
Stu?
No. No, it's gonna be fine.
It was a party in Vegas.
Lot of drugs, lot of
people I don't know.
I was there with Crystal
Lee and this guy Paul Brown
who wanted me to invest
in a TV show for Crystal.
I don't know.
I don't know, it's gonna be like
a Dallas set in Washington.
What... Stu, what does it matter?
Okay.
Okay.
Will Crystal back up your
story that you weren't using?
Just go put out the statement.
You know what?
the same room, Congressman.
Gus!
Yeah. The Swiss make an antiaircraft gun
called the Oerlikon.
Listen, Charlie.
Twenty-millimeter cannon,
high rate of fire.
I know the Oerlikon.
Don't forget the limo driver.
What do you mean?
Well, you took a limo from
the casino to the airport.
Maybe it's easy enough to track down
a limo driver, hand him a subpoena,
ask him if anything was
going on in the back seat,
so, you know, in terms
of cleaning up this...
Were you listening at the door?
- I wasn't listening at the door.
- Were you standing
- at the goddamn door listening to me?
- No.
How could you even...
That's a thick door!
You stood there and you listened to me?
I wasn't standing at the door.
Don't be an idiot.
What?
Yeah, it's got a little
transmitter on it.
my ear. Get past it.
I don't believe this. Who the
f***... Who the f*** are you?
It's not in my ear
right now. Take it easy.
I was gonna tell you about it, but
I had to leave the room for a second
- 'cause you were getting indicted.
- I ain't getting indicted.
- No, that's a little paranoid.
That's right.
Will you take the bug
Sure.
I saw two kids, had
when they tried to pick
up something shiny.
Sometimes the kids think
those bombs are toys.
- For children to pick up.
- Yeah.
- They're raping the women and...
- Yeah.
...bayoneting the pregnant ones.
It's as bad as it can be.
But they still want to go
out and fight the Red Army.
Each and every one of them. I've
never seen anything like that.
No, me, neither.
Let's be clear. I want to kill
Russians as much as you do.
Is the Oerlikon the right gun?
Is that what they should have?
Now, you know what?
You've had a long flight.
You're under a lot of stress.
You're under arrest.
I ain't under arrest.
- Do you drink?
- Oh, God, yeah.
Well, should we try this Scotch,
or is it gonna release
sarin gas when I open it?
Oh, I don't think so,
but open it over there.
How'd a guy like you
get into the Agency?
- What, you mean a street guy?
- You ain't James Bond.
And you ain't Thomas Jefferson,
so let's call it even.
Deal.
Since there's no other
reason I should be here,
let's assume it's 'cause
I'm very good at this.
They need to shoot down
the helicopters, Gus.
They need at least, what, 50 Oerlikons.
Yeah, it's gonna cost a
lot more than $10 million.
And I say for the fourth
time, I can raise the money.
Yeah, how?
Is the Oerlikon the gun
I should be recommending?
I'm not sure.
- Who is sure?
- A weapons guy named Mike Vickers.
- I'll call him.
- Yeah. Let's call him right now.
All right, here's a test.
You see the nerdy-looking
kid in the white shirt
playing against the four guys at once?
Yeah.
Which one of the guys do you think
with the CIA?
That was a trick question, Charlie.
It's the nerdy-looking
kid in the white shirt.
All right, no reason this
can't be fun, you know.
- Mike!
- Yeah, just a second.
Need you now, Mike.
Keep playing.
Mike Vickers, this is
Congressman Charles Wilson
of the Defense
Appropriations Subcommittee.
- How are you, sir?
- Fine, thank you.
- How old are you?
- I'll be 30 next week.
This is the CIA's weapons expert?
One of them. But he's the most senior.
- Look...
- Mike!
Yeah, bishop to queen's knight 7.
See? He's playing without
even looking at the board.
That's a useful skill
if Afghanistan's ever
invaded by Boris Spassky.
Did my office not make it clear
to Langley that I'm in no mood
- to be f***ed around with?
- Charlie...
You answer to me or you
answer to Jim Baker.
Which do you want?
All right, the guy's a f***ing Green
Beret, Charlie. He
trained with the SEALs.
- No one's trying to f*** with you!
- Mike?
- Yeah, what was your move?
All right, queen to king's rook 3.
Guy on the right, you don't
Sh*t.
All right, I apologize.
Okay.
Everybody friends?
As a former naval officer myself,
Mike, I should've known better.
As a former naval officer, I'd
have been surprised if you had.
- Now, what the f***?
- Hey.
- He said he was sorry.
- Hey.
What can I do for you, sir?
All right, he wants to make a
recommendation to his Subcommittee.
Now, the Swiss made Oerlikon S.T.A.
Antiaircraft cannon,
that's what you'd use
to shoot down the Ml-24 Hind
gunship in the mountains, right?
Well, the Oerlikon's a good start,
but the Russians will just start
flying higher altitude missions.
So what else do they need?
Same thing you give us.
AK-47 s, AK-74s, AKMS.
The Soviets didn't come into
Afghanistan on a Eurail Pass.
They came in T-55 tanks.
The fighters need RPG-7
anti-tank grenade launchers,
Katyusha 107 mm rockets, wire mines,
plastic mines, bicycle
bombs, sniper rifles,
ammunition for all the above
and frequency-hopping radios
and burst transmitters
so these guys aren't so
f***ing easy to find.
Well, I've written it all
in a report you can read.
You'd be the first one who did.
Send a copy of it to me by
- I will. All right.
- All right.
There was a report?
It's not that simple.
- Why not?
- Well, for one thing it's covert.
When an Afghan freedom
fighter gets captured,
it can't be with an
American-made weapon on him.
That's how a cold war
turns into an actual war,
and that's something you
want to keep a good eye on.
So anything we give
them has to look like
captured from the Soviets.
- Yeah, that's right.
- You know who's good at that?
- Israel and Egypt.
- That's right.
You know what Vickers
just described back there
could cost as much as $40 million.
- I can get the appropriation.
- But how?
I want to know how are you gonna
get the approval of Congress
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